📹Large demonstrations of the Alevi community repressed on the Syrian coast

In the cities of Latakia, Tartus, Homs, Jableh, and the surrounding areas, Alevi citizens took to the streets to protest against attacks and systematic kidnappings by Damascus forces and militias affiliated with them. Several videos show knife attacks by counter-protesters loyal to the transitional government and the subsequent repression of the demonstrations with weapons by Damascus forces. Injuries and casualties are reported.

Zareena Rafiq Tranag Maho, a fighter of the Balochistan Liberation Front, carried out a self-scrifice attack on Frontier Corps headquarters in Nokkundi, detonating a bomb at the entrance and allowing her comrades to continue the assault.

In the past three days, 29 separate operations reportedly killed 34 Pakistani soldiers. Attacks targeted army convoys, intelligence vehicles, checkpoints... In some areas, groups temporarily seized control of roads and installations across districts including Gwadar, Quetta, Kalat, Turbat, Mastung, and Panjgur.

The Frontier Corps operates in Balochistan, supporting resource extraction. The Nokkundi headquarters is near the Iran and Afghanistan borders, the Raskoh nuclear test zone, and Reko Diq and Sindak mining areas.

The Baloch struggle is rooted since Pakistan’s 1947 formation, many Baloch communities have felt politically marginalized. Despite the region’s resource wealth, locals receive limited benefits, fueling economic grievances etc.

On December 28, 2025, a wave of protests that began in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar rapidly spread throughout the country. Society is exhausted after years of oppression, poverty, and national decline. The crises currently facing Iranian society are not merely economic issues; they are primarily symptoms of a deep political crisis that has plagued the people for years.

As long as this regime remains in power, the situation will continue to deteriorate. The Islamic Republic neither desires nor has the capacity to resolve these problems. PJAK (Kurdistan Free Life Party) and PDKI (Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan) expressed their support for the struggle and for the demands for the democratization of the country. Inflation and price hikes were the immediate triggers of public unrest, but they quickly evolved into political demands for freedom, decentralization, and democracy.